A new report finds that soldiers from Honduras' US-trained 15th Battalion are directly implicated in "kidnappings, killings, threats, torture and abuse of authority."
The brother of murdered campesino lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera was himself gunned down in the latest violent episode in the AguĆ”n Valley’s ongoing land dispute.
The president of a campesino organization claiming disputed lands is arrested, while the landowners and their security guards enjoy impunity amid ongoing violence.
In a big shift for the Honduran political scene, the presidential candidate of the newly formed center-left Freedom and Refoundation Party is slightly ahead in a new opinon poll.
National Congress president Juan Orlando HernĆ”ndez has introduced a bill to create semi-autonomous zones that look a lot like the “model cities” ruled unconstitutional.
A suspected drug trafficker was killed in the first DEA-backed drug raid in Honduras following a five-month suspension in radar intelligence sharing between the countries.
Two campesinos were shot dead as violence continued in land disputes in the Lower AguƔn Valley; the victims had been occupying land claimed by a university.
The number of dead in the violence over the three years since the land disputes broke out in the AguƔn region of Honduras is now about 90, the great majority of them campesinos.
Thousands attended the annual protest against the US Army’s School of the Americas while the Catholic Church dismissed the priest who launched the protests 22 years ago.
Protests swept Colombia following a World Court ruling that awarded Caribbean waters potentially rich in hydrocarbons to Nicaragua.
Four more campesinos were killed in the AguƔn Valley, a site of violent land disputes, as international activists pressured the World Bank over a loan to the leading AguƔn landowner.
With “model cities” rejected by the Supreme Court in Honduras, proponents are looking to take the neoliberal scheme to Jamaicaāand maybe even to Greece.
